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[Roto13]

Yeah, the PS1 version is kind of... an abomination. The load times kind of stop it from actually being fun. xP Nice extras, though.

[Marky Tee]

yea the opening video and music for it were awsome
those damn loading times jus spoil the whole thing

[,,,]

Honestly, I'm not sure that VI would be my favorite instead of, say, IX (also an excellent game) if VI hadn't been played when I was ~11 and IX when I was ~21 or so. It's not nostalgia, it's just that video games meant more and captured my attention more back then. I will never play a game that means as much to me now as VI did back then. Wait, that doesn't necessarily count as nostalgia, right? Moving on.

That said, I think VI is more than worthy of of the accolades I give it. The story is compelling-- watching South Figaro fall to the empire, watching General Leo have a.... mishap..... watching the Celes/Loki drama, watching what happened to Cyan's family, and then you've got what I think is, objectively speaking, the greatest video game madman of all time as the lead villain. Kefka, as they say in the parlance of our time, "owned." Ultros was pretty awesome too, but for different reasons. I also, no matter what some people say, loved the open-endedness of the WOR, being able to go anywhere I wanted in any order and finish the game whenever I chose. Damn it, that's how a great game should be. Anyone who doesn't like it can go play Mystic Quest, those rails were built for you. Hmmm, am I forgetting anything? Oh yeah, I love the opera scene. And, let's see.... oh yeah, it's fun. And that really ought to be the only criterion for what makes a game good or bad. More fun than the rest of the series? Well.... like I said, I can't be objective.

[Roogle]

I think that a lot of the praise from this game comes from its timely release. For a lot of people, this was one of the last games of its generation, and it will always hold a special place in their hearts because of that.

[Bolivar]

It was way ahead of its time. Even though I played it years later, my jaw still dropped when a sprite came out on a stage, opened his mouth and began to sing.

It was because of events like this (and VI had alot of them) that anyone playing this in the mid '90s would have been seriously impacted by this game. Playing it based on lofty recommendations and previous knowledge of later RPGs can really ruin your experience with it.

Having played RPGs on later consoles beforehand, I felt the story and characters were much more lacking than they actually were; having played certain Genesis as opposed to SNES RPGs during the 16-bit era, the experience felt boring and unrewarding. The question on my mind was "Is this all there is?"

I actually prefer a few older FF's to VI, but it's still grown to be one of my favorite RPGs of all time. When I put Linux on my PS3, FFVI was the first rom I went for.

[Goldenboko]

Originally Posted by Marky Tee ^

whoaa guys calm yourselfs
im not here to bash the game i do realy like it

Why not tell us what you think was the best in the series and why, then we could explain why FFVI is so much better

ff9 for the exact reasons grinn gave appart from lookin better than any before it cause 8's cgi's were awsome

maybe if i had played it on the snes when it first came out cause the ps1 versions loading times when you went to battles or into the menu realy sucked
thats what annoyed me about it

I try not to call a game great because of CGI or Graphics, as nowadays, most games have good CGI and Graphics. The most important elements of a game to me, are, story, and gameplay. Both of which, this game had plenty of, FFIX just barely, tops it as my favorite though.

[Roserashi]

I liked VI for many things. The first being the fact that THERE IS NO STUPID MAIN CHARACTER THAT YOU'RE STUCK FOREVER WITH!!!!! Seriously, the only charcaters you get stuck with that was respectable was Zidane, and maybe Squall. Cloud's nowhere as cool as the FFVI cast. Sephiroth... don't get me started... How killing ONE person, and destroying ONE village because he want to become god is cooler than someone who kills countless people, destroy more village than any charcater in an RPG, and completely reface the world, nearly destroying it just because the said villain felt like it?

Also, the story was awesome, and there are even parts where the story changed acording to your action, which, if I remember corectly, only have been repeated in FFVII (in the main series, at least) Like how you feed Cid at the begining of WoR, or the ending changing according to how many people you find in the WoR.

And it has my favourite character of the series: Sabin. well I should say the Figaro brothers. The figaro brother are in my opinion the coolest duo ever created in a video game, folowed by Fujin and Raijin in VIII. Although my favourite ''Solo'' character in the series is Galuf from V (Shame he died)

FFVII was good, I admit it. But is nowhere as good as VI is. In fact, I think that FFVII's story resemble FFVI's but in a cheap and weird way.

[Heath]

Originally Posted by Roserashi ^

I liked VI for many things. The first being the fact that THERE IS NO STUPID MAIN CHARACTER THAT YOU'RE STUCK FOREVER WITH!!!!!

Have to admit, that's one thing I've always liked about FFVI. Not only the cast of characters that is pretty great, but that you don't get stuck with one character you have to use all the game. It was nice to be able to customise your party like that and - in my view - gave the game some decent replay value.